Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves

59 Pages Posted: 24 Jan 2020 Last revised: 29 Jan 2025

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Gara Afonso

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Kyungmin Kim

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Antoine Martin

Swiss National Bank

Ed Nosal

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Simon Potter

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Date Written: January 1, 2020

Abstract

We offer a parsimonious model of the reserve demand to study the trade-offs associated with various monetary policy implementation frameworks. Our model considers a reserve demand function that encompasses banks' preferences for reserves in the post 2007-2009 financial crisis world and incorporates shocks to the demand for and the supply of reserves. We find that the best policy implementation outcomes are realized when reserves are somewhere in between scarce and abundant. This outcome is consistent with the Federal Open Market Committee's 2019 announcement to implement monetary policy in a regime with an ample supply of reserves.

Keywords: federal funds market, monetary policy implementation, ample reserves

JEL Classification: E42, E58

Suggested Citation

Afonso, Gara and Kim, Kyungmin and Martin, Antoine and Nosal, Ed and Potter, Simon and Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam, Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves (January 1, 2020). FRB of New York Staff Report No. 910. Rev. January 2025, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3524621 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3524621

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